Vulnerability Report

CVE-2026-65321

Title: PyAthena SQL Injection

SQLi

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2026-65321

CWE Category CWE-89
Published Date Aug 02, 2026
Modified Date Aug 06, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 9.3 CVSS v4.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.46%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2026-65321: PyAthena prior to 3.35.4 contains a sql injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary SQL by exploiting improper quote-escaping in DefaultParameterFormatter.format(), which routes DELETE and CTAS statements to the _escape_hive function that backslash-escapes single quotes rather than doubling them. Because Athena and Trino do not treat backslashes as escape characters inside string literals, attacker-supplied input such as a single quote followed by SQL syntax causes the parser to terminate the string literal prematurely, enabling data exfiltration via UNION SELECT, execution of destructive statements, and attacker-controlled CTAS destination and content.

Impacted Vendors

Analysis in Progress...

Reference Links

https://github.com/laughingman7743/PyAthena https://github.com/laughingman7743/PyAthena/security/advisories/GHSA-xwj5-g6cv-4r5c https://github.com/pyathena-dev/PyAthena/commit/27901d12245ea722b3b4e211c60e2ade4e7c8efd https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/pyathena-sql-injection-via-defaultparameterformatter-delete-ctas
CVSS v4.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity CRITICAL
9.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
N/A
RAW VECTOR CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity CRITICAL
9.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2026-65321 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

GitHub https://github.com/rahulreddykarne/CVE-2026-65321-pyathena
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MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

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Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.